![]() ![]() ![]() The delicate functions of interpretation figure saliently in both novels. Is it any wonder, then, that it is in the alchemy of one language into another that these otherwise disparate stories reside? Ensnared in the interstices between words, everything is rendered ambiguous. ![]() Taken abroad by their careers and dislodged from a culture familiar to them, the respective protagonists of these novels find themselves buoyed along by currents of contingencies, even as they are inevitably confronted with momentous life decisions: while their present preoccupations demand commitment from them, their accented tongues remain a lingering reminder of how temporary such configurations may be. When one is no longer at home in one’s language, nothing is certain - this is the common premise from which both Naoise Dolan and Katie Kitamura’s most recent works proceed. ![]()
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